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[polly_mer]

The talk that I will give on Wednesday for an international virtual conference was officially approved for public release as of an hour ago.  I've met my quota of productivity for the day.

I should take lessons. I woke up early and made a randomized quiz for one of my classes, but then rested on my laurels for a few hours and twiddled my thumbs.

Ideally, the talk would have been in the system for official approval last Monday, but I spent a good part of today hounding people on my last-minute need for the approval process to go quickly.

This particular talk is very different from the talk we discussed in January, but my funder approved it and therefore my manager is happy with a talk that has zero results.  The conference is happy that anyone is still speaking and attending, so we're all good.

[Parasaurolophus]

It took three hours for me to split the videos into uploadable chunks, upload them to YouTube, and then get the links up on the LMS. Whew.

Most of that time is just waiting for things, but it's hard to do real work while you're constantly being interrupted by various processes and having to start new ones. But it could have been worse! And now they're up and I can just reuse them in the fall and winter.

[polly_mer]

Hand sanitizer is flammable, even with just static electricity. Let the sanitizer dry and then go about your day.

Hand sanitizer left in a hot car can catch fire and will be less effective. The flash point is 100 deg. F.  Store your hand sanitizer at under 75 deg. F.

[Parasaurolophus]

Just found a tick crawling on my laptop screen. Sigh.

[mamselle]

Flame me if you want.

I'm in love with Baby Yoda.

M.

[Vkw10]

A meeting on contingency planning today opened with The Mississippi Squirrel Revival official video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU

The meeting closed with another video by Ray Stevens, one my Grandma Ethel loved. Virtual cookies to the first person to identify the song.

[polly_mer]

The meeting closed with another video by Ray Stevens, one my Grandma Ethel loved. Virtual cookies to the first person to identify the song.

The Streak with "Don't look, Ethel!"

[mamselle]

You beat me!

I just started listening to try to figure it out.

I was about to guess "Blue Cyclone because of the stalwart 83-year old grandmother in part 1....

Thanks for the nuttiness!

Just what I needed at the end of a tightly-packed week.

M.

[Vkw10]

The meeting closed with another video by Ray Stevens, one my Grandma Ethel loved. Virtual cookies to the first person to identify the song.

The Streak with "Don't look, Ethel!"

Virtual cookies! Pinwheels, whoopie pies, shortbread, raspberry thumbprints, gingersnaps, chocolate chip, peanut butter, cheese wafers, snickerdoodles, oatmeal raisin, or pepper snaps, all baked from Grandma's recipes.  (Personally, I'd avoid the pepper snaps, but my brother loved the heat, so I made a few.)

[mamselle]

Can we get some (interthreadual) bake sale donations, Polly?

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

I got a large tax return and I've decided (unwisely) to sink a chunk of it into a mail hauberk. So there. You can't tell me what (not) to do!

[mamselle]

Do you need an under-kirtle to go with that?

Or a houppeland to wear over it?

;--}

You'll be the best-dressed knight at the ball!

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

Tonight is the first French debate for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. Two of the four know no French, and the other two... struggle. I can't wait.

(CBC is streaming it for free, btw. 19h00 EST.)

[quasihumanist]

Tonight is the first French debate for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. Two of the four know no French, and the other two... struggle. I can't wait.

(CBC is streaming it for free, btw. 19h00 EST.)

Well with my bad French I understand bad French better than properly spoken French...

[Parasaurolophus]

I tuned in 10 minutes late. The livestream features an empty stage and energetic muzak on a loop.

I think that says it all rather eloquently, really.